[R] Numeric, 2 ??? as a result of marix???

[Stefan Grosse]

On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:15:45 +0200 Wolfgang Polasek
<wolfgang.polasek at gmail.com> wrote:

WP> > g=gretldata[1:2,]
WP> > g
WP>    Empfang   Versand  Transit  Inland Ausland    SumS
WP> 1 787844.0 1307176.6 223395.4 1474726 16199.1 3809341
WP> 2 421473.1  306445.4 448801.2 1779402 14445.6 2970567
WP> > dim(g)
WP> [1] 2 6
WP> > as.vector(g)
WP>    Empfang   Versand  Transit  Inland Ausland    SumS
WP> 1 787844.0 1307176.6 223395.4 1474726 16199.1 3809341
WP> 2 421473.1  306445.4 448801.2 1779402 14445.6 2970567
WP> > gg=matrix(as.vector(g),nrow=1,byrow=TRUE)
WP> > gg
WP>      [,1]      [,2]      [,3]      [,4]      [,5]      [,6]
WP> [1,] Numeric,2 Numeric,2 Numeric,2 Numeric,2 Numeric,2 Numeric,2
WP> >
WP>  Help please,the docu on thids is lousy!!!.

Depending on what you want which is not really clear again, you can use 
?reshape
or maybe also 
?stack

to reshape a data-frame which gretldata supposedly is.

Note that with your as.vector(g) you dont create a vector as:
dat1<-data.frame(x=1:3, y=5:7)
v1<-as.vector(dat1)
str(v1)
resp.
is.vector(v1)

clearly shows. So you were also not "debugging" your problem. And you
clearly did not have a look at the "lousy" documentation as this is
shown in the example in ?as.vector, so don't blame others!

Cheers
Stefan